We also speculate about the implications of implementing the guidelines from a geriatric medicine perspective. Strategies that embrace a balance between opioid prescribing and pain treatment in older adults are encouraged because poorly treated pain in this age-group has deleterious consequences on ...
Purpose: To identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients and compare the appropriateness of guidelines; Beers' and Screeni... - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Inappropriate prescribing in geriatric patients : Dementia and falls prevention Adver...
( 8.4) Geriatric use: Elderly patients may be more susceptible to development of torsades de pointes arrhythmias. ( 8.5) See 17 for PATIENT COUNSELING INFORMATION and FDA-approved patient labeling. Revised: 12/2024Full Prescribing Information...
Geriatric Patients In a published study of geriatric patients ranging in age from 64 to 88 years with normal renal function for their age (creatinine clearance ranging from 31.5 to 174.0 mL/min), the half-life for cefoxitin ranged from 51 to 90 minutes, resulting in higher plasma concentratio...
Geriatric Principles On the surface, prescribing for older adults is similar to prescribing for younger adults, requiring understanding of drug indications, dosing, potential adverse reactions, and drug–drug interactions. However, prescribing for older adults is complicated by a variety of factors. Ph...
GERIATRIC PATIENTS. A STUDY OF BONE PROTECTION PRESCRIBING IN ORTHOGERIATRIC PATIENTS.A STUDY OF BONE PROTECTION PRESCRIBING IN ORTHOGERIATRIC PATIENTS.The article presents an abstract "A Study of Bone Protection Prescribing in Orthogeriatric Patients," by A. E. Baird....
Experience indicates that geriatric patients may be particularly sensitive to certain adverse effects of NSAIDs. Elderly or debilitated patients seem to tolerate peptic ulceration or bleeding less well when these events do occur. Most spontaneous reports of fatal GI events are in the geriatric popula...
As most long-term conditions are managed by reference to separate evidence-based guidelines, the lack of guidance on prioritising treatments in patients with multiple conditions can lead to polypharmacy and is a challenge for healthcare professionals [3]. One difficulty in the prescribing for multi...
Many caregivers lack knowledge and understanding of non-pharmacological pain treatments and cannot provide patients with the full scope of available pain therapies. Tennessee Chronic Pain Guidelines The state of Tennessee developed clinical practice guidelines for outpatient management of chronic non-malignant...
Geriatric patients:The geriatric population may show slightly higher plasma concentrations of metoprolol as a combined result of a decreased metabolism of the drug in elderly population and a decreased hepatic blood flow. However, this increase is not clinically significant or therapeutically relevant. ...